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FBI Director James Comey said Monday the Department of Justice (DOJ) has "no information" supporting Trump's unverified claim from earlier this month.
"Director Comey's testimony put the last nail into President Trump's mendacious wiretapping claims," Pelosi said in a statement Monday, according to MSNBC.
"President Trump owes President Obama and the American people an apology for his disgraceful and incendiary fabrications."
Pelosi added Trump's wiretapping claims are a diversion from possible collusion between Russia and his 2016 presidential campaign.
"President Trump has been desperate to distract attention from the FBI investigation into the Kremlin's grip on his administration," she said.
"We have to pass the bill," she said, "so that you can find out what is in it — away from the fog of the controversy."
Conservatives — abetted by dozens of political journalists who should have known better — immediately seized on a truncated version of the quote. Pelosi was really expressing her confidence in the underlying merits of the bill, but it became instead a shorthand for the allegedly dodgy process through which Obamacare was passed.
Republicans unveiled a pair of proposals Monday evening, with plans to mark them up Wednesday in both the Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means committees — a window that excludes hearings and likely won't allow the time for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to examine its costs beforehand.
Pelosi and the Democrats say it's a dereliction to ask lawmakers to vote on legislation of such consequence without an independent assessment of the budget, coverage and quality-of-care impacts.
In a Tuesday letter to Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), she asked for a delay.
"Just when you've seen it all, the Republicans go to a more extreme place. This will make millions of people -- it's a question of 10, 15, 20 million people off of having health insurance. It will be the biggest transfer of wealth from low-middle income people to wealthy people in our country," the California Democrat said in an interview on "CBS This Morning."
The measure would still include coverage for preexisting conditions and allow children to stay on their parents' plans until age 26. Pelosi said that in order to cover preexisting conditions, you have to have a pool of people.
"We are far past recusal. Jeff #Sessions lied under oath. Anything less than resignation or removal from office is unacceptable," Pelosi tweeted.
Pelosi first called for Sessions to resign late Wednesday, shortly after reports that Sessions met with Russia's U.S. ambassador twice during last year's campaign.
Sessions said during his January confirmation hearings that he had no contact with Russia. He said at the time: "I did not have communications with the Russians."
Since the revelation, Sessions has faced rising calls from Republicans to recuse himself from any investigations into Russia's connections to President Trump's administration.
Reports emerged Thursday the FBI rejected a White House request to dismiss news stories about staffers from Trump's campaign repeatedly contacting Russian intelligence agents.
"The Trump White House has been caught trying to pressure the FBI into undermining a vital national security investigation into explosive ties between senior Trump officials and Russian intelligence agents, an action which is in violation of Department of Justice rules and may be illegal," Pelosi said in a statement Friday.
In selecting Mr. Beshear, 72, Democrats opted to elevate an elder statesman from the belt of heartland states that Mr. Trump won handily, rather than highlighting one of the party's newer faces or a potential challenger to Mr. Trump in 2020.
In announcing the choice, Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, and Nancy Pelosi of California, the House minority leader, underscored Mr. Beshear's distinctive credentials as a spokesman on health care.
The San Francisco Democrat told more than a dozen people gathered at a federal building that immigrants who come to the United States with their courage and dreams make "America more American."
She said the country has some challenges now.
President Donald Trump has pledged to punish cities that provide sanctuary protections to people who are in the country illegally. His administration also is drafting a new order that would limit travel from seven Muslim-majority nations after a previous order was blocked in court.
Some immigrants have made emergency plans in case they are picked up for deportation by federal authorities.
Although Pelosi was the only non-musician in the photo, she sorta looked the part — Pelosi and Blige are striking mirrored hand-on-hip poses.
Pelosi, it turns out, is a regular guest at the Beverly Hilton hotel shindig, which is known in the music biz as the most-coveted invite of all the Grammy parties. At this year's event, the California Democrat introduced Davis, praising his work on HIV/AIDS and promoting the arts. "The arts have immense power to shift the national conversation," Pelosi said, according to a transcript of her remarks.
"Elections have ramifications, and here is a living, breathing example of it," Pelosi said Tuesday night during a CNN town hall moderated by Jake Tapper.
Pelosi cited Gorsuch's rulings on health care, gun safety and environmental issues to explain her concerns. She said Senate Democrats -- who only have 48 seats and have not yet determined whether to attempt to block Gorsuch's nomination -- should apply the "strongest scrutiny."
But Pelosi did not say whether Democrats should filibuster Gorsuch, a move some in the party would rather use for a future nominee who could change the court's balance of power.